Medical Errors Escape Scrutiny. / Jack Dolan.
by Dolan Jack; SIRS Publishing, Inc.
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BookSeries: SIRS Enduring Issues 2003Article 70Family. Publisher: Hartford Courant, 2002ISSN: 1522-3213;.Subject(s): Death -- Causes | Investigative reporting | Medical errors | Medical errors -- Reporting | Medical personnel -- Malpractice | Medical statistics | Surgery -- ComplicationsDDC classification: 050 Summary: "In an attempt to determine how often people die during medical procedures in Connecticut hospitals and doctors' offices, The Courant obtained, through Freedom of Information Act requests, more than 10 years worth of computerized death records from the Department of Public Health and the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner. More information was obtained about certain patient deaths by interviewing next-of-kin, doctors and lawyers and by searching court records." (HARTFORD COURANT) This article provides "an analysis of the data" uncovered by The Courant and details numerous oversites which resulted in 4,422 untimely deaths across the state.
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Originally Published: Medical Errors Escape Scrutiny, April 28, 2002; pp. A1+.
"In an attempt to determine how often people die during medical procedures in Connecticut hospitals and doctors' offices, The Courant obtained, through Freedom of Information Act requests, more than 10 years worth of computerized death records from the Department of Public Health and the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner. More information was obtained about certain patient deaths by interviewing next-of-kin, doctors and lawyers and by searching court records." (HARTFORD COURANT) This article provides "an analysis of the data" uncovered by The Courant and details numerous oversites which resulted in 4,422 untimely deaths across the state.
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